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PostgreSQL 10 Administration Cookbook - Fourth Edition
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PostgreSQL 10 Administration Cookbook - Fourth Edition

by Simon Riggs, Gianni Ciolli
May 2018
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
576 pages
30h 25m
English
Packt Publishing
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How it works…

The backup produced by the preceding procedure only allows you to restore to a single point in time. That point is the time of the pg_stop_backup() function.

A physical backup takes a copy of all files in the database (step 6—the base backup). That alone is not sufficient as a backup and you need the other steps as well. A simple copy of the database produces a time-inconsistent copy of the database files. To make the backup time consistent, we need to add all the changes that took place from the start to the end of the backup. That's why we have steps 5 and 7 to bracket our backup step.

In technical terms, steps 5 and 7 take advantage of the API that controls exclusive backups, meaning that there can only be one physical backup ...

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